I dunno. I look almost exactly like my mother's father, so that would make things even weirder.

We also have stripes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaschko%27s_lines

Because they're indicating that is the exact word used in Disney's statement.

They made up an excuse about how there was 'no room' for promotions, except they demoted Paris for a while which would have freed up a spot for Kim. Also, Kim being an ensign when he's in charge of all of Ops doesn't make any sense; he has lieutenants and possibly lieutenant commanders under him.

Out of universe, Berman said that someone absolutely had to be the rookie, even after seven years in deep space, so Kim couldn't get promoted or meaningfully grow. He also tried to fire Wang a few times for nebulous reasons, only backing off when Wang got a 'sexiest man on TV' award. Wang was also the only Star Trek cast member to ever be denied the opportunity to direct an episode, courtesy of Berman. Wang also once said of Berman, "if there is a hell in this existence that we have that people can go to, he's first on the list."

So, short answer is that Berman is scum.

Guy on the left looks less like Qui-Gon and more like Obi-Wan in Attack of the Clones.

That kind of knitting hadn't been invented yet by the time the dodecahedrons stopped being made, they didn't all have different size holes, and they don't show signs of wear.

I don't think we've deviated far at all. Our attitudes toward animals are the product of thousands or tens of thousands, depending on the species, of years of cultural development combined with the fact that we are, ultimately, just predatory social apes. We have an instinctual craving for meat, and culture directs that craving. Even our aversion to cannibalism is, ultimately, cultural.

We've only recently seen shifts in cultural attitudes toward meat consumption and general treatment of animals with very little deviation having occured since the first cities were founded. And those shifts were only possible due to recent advances in agriculture and the invention of the internal combustion engine. Things won't change quickly because nobody wants to be told that their beloved family recipe that they have fond childhood memories of is weird, or wrong, or evil. People tend to react poorly to having something they see as part of their identity questioned, getting aggressive, defensive, just shutting down, or digging in their heels and doubling down.

If your goal with this is to get people to stop eating meat, then I'll point out that people tend to respond better to possitive interactions. "I like that dish, and I've found you can replace [meat] with [alternative] if you're on a budget," or just suggesting a vegetarian or vegan recipe without mentioning that it's vegetarian will produce more possitive results than just telling people why they shouldn't eat meat. I've reduced my own meat consumption significantly due to that kind of thing. But you can't convince people not to do something if you don't understand why they do it in the first place.

Some cultures do eat horses without any taboos. Whether or not your culture does is linked to whether your ancestors cultivated wheat or rice. Wheat cultivating humans bred horses to help with tilling the soil and harvesting the wheat, making them too valuable to eat. Rice cultivating humans needed to cultivate and harvest rice by hand, resulting in horses being used for other things. In both cases, mechanization has resulted in horses being largely obsolete for human uses, but cultural bonds remain and they became pets, particularly in the wheat focused cultures.

Herbivores pretty consistently taste better than carnivores. Cats also developed a symbiotic relationship with humans when humans developed agriculture.

Despite how long the show takes to make and how old the actors playing the kids are now, no. Each season is set during the year after the previous season. Season 5 is supposed to be 1987.

I think that's technically true regardless.

Epic also generated a lot of bad blood by scooping up Kickstarter projects and ordering the devs to cancel the Steam releases, releases that had already been paid for by backers. A bunch of potential customers refused to buy from Epic on principle after that.